New CDC research suggests that a small but significant percentage of dairy farmers working near infected cows have recently ...

Almost from the beginning of the spread of H5N1 bird flu among farms and ranches in the U.S. earlier this year, experts and ...

Rising H5N1 bird flu cases in the U.S. prompted the CDC to study the virus in ferrets, revealing it may have the potential to ...

Federal officials said Thursday that farmworkers exposed to bird flu should be tested for the virus even if they are not ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is updating its recommendations for testing, treatment and protection ...

Farm workers who have been exposed to animals with bird flu should be tested for the virus even if they do not have symptoms, ...

The CDC study provides the largest window to date into how the bird virus first detected in March in dairy cows may be ...

The United States Department of Agriculture last week reported that a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon was infected with bird ...

About 7% of dairy workers exposed to the avian flu that is spreading through U.S. herds have become infected themselves, ...

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Pigs, in particular, are sometimes called a “mixing vessel,” for flu viruses because they can pool together human and bird flu viruses at the same time, STAT reported. The fear is that various ...

If one can point to anything good about the H5N1 bird ... seasonal flu. Knowing that many do not have health care coverage — and may be unlikely to prioritize getting a flu shot they have ...